Jo Bannister

Book List in Order: 46 titles

  • China Roses

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    A brutal attack on a family friend leads to something darker and deeper for DC Hazel Best and Gabriel Ash. No one ever said: “See Norbold and die.” So why would a man from DC Hazel Best’s past cross England in order to get himself beaten...

  • Dangerous Pursuits

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    When Gabriel Ash comes across a terrified young woman fleeing a brutal attacker, he and Hazel Best are drawn into a complex and baffling investigation. Rachel Somers, running . . . Something appalling happened in the wood. When Gabriel Ash and hi...

  • Silent Footsteps

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy

    Constable Hazel Best attracts a sinister new admirer in this absorbing police procedural. When does a secret admirer become a stalker? When chocolates on the doorstep give way to the sound of an intruder on the stairs? When the victim’s friends are...

  • Kindred Spirits

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    A case of mistaken identity spells trouble for Gabriel Ash and Hazel Best in this intriguing mystery. A kidnap attempt outside the school gates in broad daylight convinces Gabriel Ash that his renegade wife is trying to steal their sons from him....

  • Other Countries

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Detective Constable Hazel Best’s latest assignment takes an unexpected turn in the compelling new Gabriel Ash mystery. Returning to work after an extended leave of absence, DC Hazel Best’s first task is to shadow TV historian Oliver Ford, who...

  • Desperate Measures

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    When Gabriel Ash's wife and kids were kidnapped four years ago by Somali pirates, his life spiraled out of control. He left his job working for the British government and moved to a small town where he descended into near madness. But with the help o...

  • Perfect Sins

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Four years ago, Gabriel Ash was working with the British government investigating hijackings in Somalia. But when his wife and sons disappeared, presumably taken―and probably killed―by pirates, his life fell apart. He has sudden reason to hope wh...

  • Burning Desires

    A town the size of Castlemere might expect to see one major fire a year. When a derelict warehouse burns down just days after a blaze destroys Rachid's Eight-Till-Late, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro is worried. Either of the fires could hav...

  • Deadly Virtues

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    The town of Norbold, England is famous for its low crime rate, thanks to the zero-tolerance policy of Chief Superintendent John Fountain. And Norbold's newest police recruit, Hazel Best, is happy to help keep it that way. But numbers never tell the w...




  • A Cactus Garden

    There was more to the brooding forest world of Mithras than the great Hive rising from its clearing, and somewhere there was an intellect more ruthlessly domineering than even the Lady Amalthea's. Shah could feel it but not find it, at least not in t...

  • The Matrix

    Dak Hamiko had never even heard of the Matrix. Nobody had, not for millennia, but The Matrix was not gone, only waiting. It had a purpose, in pursuit of which it was prepared to be every bit as ruthless as the imperialists of Tok-ai-Do. It was Dak's ...

  • Sins of the Heart

    When the body of teenage prostitute Charisma is discovered in the murky waters of Castle Canal, her throat cut back to the spine, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro and Detective Inspector Liz Graham head Castlemere CID's investigation.Close to ...

  • The Winter Plain

    The Garden City of Chad was an oasis in a barren land, too rare and precious to escape the predation of someone like harry Jess. But the Barbarian made a mistake when he brought, along with his silver-studded cavalry, his concubine. Because when the ...

  • Death in High Places

    Nick Horn knows he's a dead man walking. Surviving the disastrous mountain climb that killed his best friend, Patrick, had destroyed his own life and hard-won reputation. Staying on the run from Patrick's vengeful gangster father has left him with no...

  • Liars All

    PRICELESS GOODS Brodie Farrell's eclectic agency, called Looking for Something?, has been hired to find a rare star sapphire tied to tragedy. As Brodie herself is preoccupied with a tougher challenge, finding a cure for her infant son's illness, t...

  • Closer Still

    Brodie Farrell has all but put her detective agency, Looking for Something?, on hold while she tends to her new baby, born with a rare condition. Now, as her son's health issues stabilize and longtime friend Daniel Hood offers to care for him, she fi...

  • Fathers and Sins

    A new mystery from a popular author - When Robin Firths son Mouse is blamed for a fatal car crash, Robins fury stuns both the boy and Agnes, his new wife. Then the village church burns down, and suspicion falls on Mouse. And then theres the interest ...

  • Flawed

    PRESENT IMPERFECT There is nothing as constant as change, a reality that seems to descend with a heavy hand when Brodie Farrell, newly single and unexpectedly pregnant, ponders the fate of her one-woman detective agency, Looking for Something. Her...

  • Tinderbox

    The haunting new novel from an acclaimed crime writer - Laurence Schofield's world was torn apart when his teenage daughter vanished. No trace was ever found. But six years later, a TV crew filming in London records a few seconds' footage of a girl w...




  • Requiem for a Dealer

    What goes up must come down... And in the world of designer drugs, that often means death. Scram is the new high for Dimmock's teenagers, but it's a killer. Brodie Farrell, a professional "finder," is drawn into its dangerous world after a strang...

  • The Fifth Cataract

    Bad dreams stop when you wake up . . . One-time doctor turned writer Clio Marsh joins a survival training course based on the Norfolk Broads as part of the research into a new novel ? strictly as an observer, she thinks.But course directors Hollis an...

  • Breaking Faith

    When she called her business "Looking for Something?" Brodie Farrell hoped to receive challenging commissions from interesting clients. Even by her standards, though, demon rock musician Jared Fry is hard to please. Fortunately his manager, the chari...

  • The Depths of Solitude

    A LONELY PLACE TO DIE An enterprising woman who earns her living by locating things that are hard to find, Brodie Farrell is not easily shaken. But when her estranged friend Daniel Hood puts a For Sale sign on his house and disappears without a trac...

  • Reflections

    SINS OF THE MOTHER Brodie Farrell's "Looking for Something?" investigation agency specializes in tracking down everything from the mundane to the murderous. It is the latter, now, that involves Brodie in the family life of a murdered woman, stabbe...

  • True Witness

    A peaceful evening of stargazing for math teacher Daniel Hood turns tragic when his telescope focuses on the brutal murder of a young man on the pier in front of his house. Daniel saw the killer's face and he knows it does not belong to the prime sus...

  • Echoes of Lies

    Brodie Farrell is a "finder of lost things," and that means everything from rare objects to missing ponies. Now she faces a disturbing and deadly mystery. Hired to find a young man accused of swindling, she locates the individual, gives her client hi...

  • Changelings

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    A TOWN GRIPPED BY FEAR It begins with contaminated yogurt in a supermarket. Next, the tampering of showers in a girls' locker room. Caustic soda in baby powder. Cholera in cough medicine. An anonymous note promises much more--unless the town of Ca...

  • The Hireling's Tale

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    MARKED FOR MURDER Detective Inspector Frank Shapiro and his two chief investigators, Liz Graham and Cal Donovan, probe a mysterious conspiracy, which may rob Castlemere of more than one of their finest. A young prostitute is found dead on a boat in ...

  • The Primrose Switchback

    Shad couldn't be guilty of murder. . . could he? Rosie Holland, newspaper’s advice columnist for the Skipley Chronicle, becomes worried when her gardener, Shad, is discovered unconscious and bleeding near a dead body. When he is put under hyp...




  • Critical Angle

    They've been inseparable partners ever since the day Gil Todd, a renowned British reporter, hauled a drunken Mickey Flynn out of a New York City bar and helped him become one of the world's most respected photojournalists. But their odd-couple relati...

  • Unlawful Entry

    When Welsh-born Annie Meredith learns that she has a half-brother who was killed trying to cross the Mexican-American border as an illegal immigrant, she journeys to Texas to bury him and gets an education in border politics...

  • An Uncertain Death

  • The Primrose Convention

    When newspaper advice columnist and amateur sleuth Rosie Holland volunteers to help Fiona Morris search for her missing brother who disappeared while birdwatching in the Hebrides, her no-nonsense approach to problems edges from unorthodox to dangerou...

  • Broken Lines

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Riding his motorcycle through the frosty back roads in the country is Detective Sergeant Donovan's idea of relaxation: Walking in on the armed robbery of a Castlemere gas station isn't. Donovan pursues the thief, but the chase ends in a horrible acci...

  • The Lazarus Hotel

    AND THEN THERE WERE NONE... A group of six strangers meet for a weekend therapy retreat at London's newest but incomplete luxury hotel. Assembled in all of their idiosyncratic glory, the six quickly discover that no one is there by accident. They ha...

  • No Birds Sing

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy

    LIVE BAIT The canal town of Castlemere is the kind of hard-luck place that provides constant challenge to its crack team of detectives. Bu the skills of Superintendent Frank Shapiro, Inspector Liz Graham and the volatile Sergeant Cal Donovan are p...

  • A Taste for Burning

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy

    OUT OF THE ASHES A pyromaniac hands the police force of Castlemere a case that becomes more personal and more devastating than any other. Chief Inspector Frank Shapiro, respected for his quiet authority and sound judgment, is suspended from the...

  • Charisma

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
    • Buy Buy

    Fatal Attraction The first victim is a young prostitute-an easy, accessible target for a killer's lust. The second victim is t, another young girl. The killer is skilled, seasoned, enjoying himself. The combustible detective team of Liz Graham ...

  • A Bleeding of Innocents

    • / Police/Detective/Law Enforcement
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    Desperate Measures The police force of Castlemere loses one of its own to a hit-and-run. Adding stress to the already understaffed force, a young nurse is brutally murdered in her car with her husband as the only witness. Is there a shotgun killer...




  • Death and Other Lovers

    Light like a great pink chrysanthemum bloomed far away over the distant perimeter, hanging high in the quiet air. Others would describe it as a fireball and speak of the deep booming roar as the fuel tanks, full to capacity at the start of the plane'...

  • Shards

    A.K.A. - CRITICAL ANGLE They've been inseparable partners ever since the day Gil Todd, a renowned British reporter for over thirty-five years, hauled a drunken Mickey Flynn out of a New York City bar and helped him become one of the world's most r...

  • The Going Down of the Sun
  • Gilgamesh

    Clio Marsh is enjoying a friendly din­ner with a few neighbors when one of them, David, is shot in the back by an unknown intruder. The group had been celebrating David's upcoming competition in the dangerous sport of horse-eventing, in which he had...

  • The Mason Codex / Unlawful Entry
  • Mosaic

    Jo Bannister's startling and sinister tale of international intrigue, suspense, and terror. In a colourful mosaic that stretches from the quiet country lanes of England to the brutal torture chambers of South Africa, Bannister explores the darker sid...

  • Striving With Gods

    Clio Rees is a doctor who has given up her practice to write murder myster­ies. It never occurred to her that she might become the central figure in one—a very real one that required more imagination to figure out than anything she had concocted f...

Complete Series List in Order

A Brodie Farrell Mystery

1) Echoes of Lies (Dec-2001)
2) True Witness (Dec-2002)
3) Reflections (Dec-2003)
4) The Depths of Solitude (Dec-2004)
5) Breaking Faith (Aug-2005)
6) Requiem for a Dealer (Dec-2006)
7) Flawed (Sep-2007)
8) Closer Still (Aug-2008)
9) Liars All (Sep-2009)

Clio Rees

1) Striving With Gods (Aug-1984)
2) Gilgamesh (Mar-1989)
3) The Going Down of the Sun (Sep-1989)

Frank Shapiro

1) A Bleeding of Innocents (Sep-1993)
2) Charisma (Sep-1994)
3) A Taste for Burning (May-1995)
4) No Birds Sing (Jun-1996)
5) Broken Lines (1998)
6) The Hireling's Tale (Dec-1999)
7) Changelings (Oct-2000)

Hazel Best / A Gabriel Ash Mystery

1) Deadly Virtues (Mar-2013)
2) Perfect Sins (Dec-2014)
3) Desperate Measures (Dec-2015)
4) Other Countries (Jun-2017)
5) Kindred Spirits (Sep-2018)
6) Silent Footsteps (Apr-2019)
7) Dangerous Pursuits (Jul-2020)
8) China Roses (Sep-2021)

Mickey Flynn

1) Shards (Jul-1990)
2) Death and Other Lovers (Mar-1991)

Primrose Holland

1) The Primrose Convention (Apr-1998)
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